The purpose of pip-upgrade is to be a simple yet robust and reliable tool for upgrading all of your packages while not breaking dependencies.

pip install pip-upgrade-tool

or

pip install git https://github.com/realiti4/pip-upgrade.git@master --upgrade

Just run pip-upgrade in your terminal while virtualenv is active.

$ pip-upgrade

Checking outdated packages...
These packages will be upgraded: ['colorama', 'isort']
Continue? (y/n): y
...
All packages are up to date! 🎉

Tip: You can use -e to exclude some packages and continue in Continue? (y/n): after seeing which packages are going to be upgraded. This is super useful for packages like gohlke's Numpy mkl for example. -r to repeat the previous excluded packages. It'll show if there is a saved repeatable action.

These packages will be upgraded: ['hypothesis', 'Pillow', 'pytest', 'setuptools']
(-r, --repeat  :  -e pytest)
Continue? (y/n or -e/-r/--help): -e pytest hypothesis

You can also exclude packages beforehand. Use -e or --exclude. The tool won't upgrade dependency breaking packages already, this is extra for packages that you want to keep it at a version. You can also add packages to config file for this to persist until you remove. This combined with pip-upgrade -y that accepts and skips user prompt can be used for automated environments.

$ pip-upgrade -e numpy pandas

• pip-upgrade -e Exclude packages you don't want to upgrade. Can take multiple or single value.
• pip-upgrade -y Accept all upgrades and skip user prompt.
• pip-upgrade --clean Clear pip's cache.
• pip-upgrade --local By default locally installed editable packages (installed with pip install -e .) won't be upgraded. Use this option to upgrade everything.
• pip-upgrade --novenv By default the tool won't work if virtualenv is not active. Use this if you want use it globally and pass the assertion error.
• pip-upgrade --reset-config Reset config file located in ~/.pipupgrade.ini to it's default.

When pip-upgrade is run for the first time, it will create a file in the user's home directory named .pipupgrade.ini. This file can be manually edited by the user for permanent configuration options. The configuration file current consists of two options under the conf section, exclude and novenv. novenv is false by default, but if set to true, the pip-upgrade command will not require you to be in a virtualenv, which is the same function as the --novenv argument. The second option, exclude, will take the same values as the --exclude argument, but these excluded packages will persist forever until removed.

Any contribution is appreciated, please feel free to send pull requests.